2019 June Monthly Online Sale

Lot: 69 Free Verse (AUS)

This sale has ended

Buyer: Doug Whitworth - $9,500

Particulars

Name:	Free Verse (AUS)
Category:	Racehorse Filly/Mare
Sire:	All Too Hard (AUS)
Dam:	Gopana (AUS)
Colour:	Bay
Sex:	Filly
DOB:	07 September 2015
COB:	AUS
Disclosures:
GST:	Yes 100%
Location:	684 Segenhoe Road SCONE NSW
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Description

Free Verse is a lightly raced 3yo ALL TOO HARD filly, currently in training with Lees Racing in Newcastle. She's had 3 starts for 1 third at Port Macquarie (beaten less than 2 lengths) on the 20th of May this year. She holds a nomination for R7 at Port Macquarie on the 25th of June 2019.

She's a lovely neat filly, who's never had soundness issues and who always eats well and adapts easily to changing routines as she goes between spells, pre-trainers and the training stable.

Free Verse's sire, All Too Hard, has a great winners to runners strike rate of over 62% and his average progeny earnings are over $50k. Last season and this season he's been a Top 10 Sire by 3yo winners and has already sired 23 Stakes horses with his oldest crop just 4yo's.

Her dam GOPANA is a multiple city winner of over $120k and is a daughter of Champion older mare HONORIFIQUE. Free Verse is also from the family of Stakes winners Valanjou and Rouvignac.

Location

684 Segenhoe Road SCONE NSW

Pedigree
Form

Pedigree



FREE VERSE
Bay filly		Foaled 2015

ALL TOO HARD

Casino Prince

Flying Spur

Danehill (USA)

Lady Capel

Last Tycoon (Ire)

Helsinge

Desert Sun (GB)

Green Desert

Scandinavia

Snippets

GOPANA
2006

Galileo (Ire)

Sadler's Wells

Northern Dancer

Urban Sea

Miswaki

Honorifique (Fr)

Highest Honor

Kenmare

Dancereine

Groom Dancer (USA)

ALL TOO HARD (AUS) (Bay 2009-Stud 2013). 7 wins-3 at 2, ATC All Aged S., Gr.1. Half-brother to SW Black Caviar. Sire of 253 rnrs, 158 wnrs, inc. SW Frosted Gold (Turffontein South African Nursery, Gr.2), Villermont, Tarka, Demonetization, Unfair Dismissal, All Too Huiying, Curdled, Roy's Riviera, SP Amangiri, Behemoth, Cristal Eyes, Outrageous, All Too Soon, Hardly Surprising, Illuminaire, Divanation, Eclair Sunshine, Fine Scent, Waimea Bay, etc.

1st dam

GOPANA, by Galileo (Ire). 4 wins from 1500m to 2000m, A$128,060, ATC Rotary International H., STC Rosehill Gardens Event Centre H., Theraces.com.au H., 2d ATC JR Turk H., HMAS Vendetta H., 4th Gosford RC Belle of the Turf S., L. Dam of 4 named foals, all raced, 1 winner, inc:-

Galtero (g by Snitzel) 4 wins from 1200m to 2000m, A$97,050, in 2018-19, BRC EJ Cast Iron H., Moet & Chandon Chairman's H., 3d BRC Grantawish P.

Free Verse (f by All Too Hard) See below.

2nd dam

HONORIFIQUE (FR), by Highest Honor. Champion Older Female in Italy in 2001 (Intermediate). 5 wins from 2000m to 3000m, 426,193fr., 110,498,616L., Milan Premio Mario Incisa, Gr.3, Longchamp Prix de la Pepiniere, L, Chantilly Prix de Villevert, Longchamp Prix de l'Ecole Militaire, 2d Longchamp Prix d'Harcourt, Gr.2, Deauville Prix de Thiberville, L, Saint-Cloud Prix Petite Etoile, L, Prix Edellic, L, Prix de Montier en Der, 3d Rome Premio Lydia Tesio, Gr.2, Saint-Cloud Prix Exbury, Gr.3, Deauville La Coupe du Fonds Europeen de l'Elevage, L, Chantilly Prix de Plailly, 4th Cagnes-sur-Mer Grand Prix du Conseil General des Alpes-Maritimes, L. Dam of 5 foals, 3 to race, 2 winners, inc:-

Gopana. 4 wins. See above.

Big Boppa Lucas. 2 wins at 1200m in Aust.

3rd dam

DANCEREINE, by Groom Dancer (USA). 3 wins-1 at 2-from 1600m to 2400m in France. Half-sister to VALANJOU, ROUVIGNAC. Dam of 9 foals, 7 to race, 3 winners, inc:-

HONORIFIQUE (f Highest Honor) 5 wins. See above.

Reaction Rapide. 2 wins at 2200m, 2300m in France. Dam of 4 winners-

Le Grand Luce. 7 wins from 3000m to 3900m, €939,800, to 2018, Auteuil Prix Stanley Hurdle, Prix Amadou Hurdle, Prix Carmarthen Hurdle, Prix Aguado Hurdle, Prix Wild Monarch Hurdle, Enghien Prix Leopold d'Orsetti Hurdle, 2d Auteuil Grande Course d'Auteuil Hurdle, Prix Renaud du Vivier Hurdle, Prix Leon Rambaud Hurdle-twice, Prix La Barka Hurdle-3 times, Prix Georges de Talhouet-Roy Hurdle, Prix de Maisons-Laffitte Hurdle.

Tramuntana. 4 wins from 1300m to 1600m in France and Spain, 2d Longchamp Prix de la Muette.

Ma Chere Amie. 2 wins at 3600m in France.

Mainvilliers. Winner at 3400m in 2018 in France.

La Palladienne. Winner at 2500m in France. Dam of 2 winners-

Raison Pure. Winner at 1700m in 2018 in Morocco.

L'Aubance. Placed, 2d Saint-Cloud Prix de l'Abbaye des Vaulx de Cernay, Deauville Prix du Cap d'Antifer.

Quelle Aubaine. Placed at 3 in France. Dam of-

Dallios. 3 wins at 3500m, 3800m, €116,555, 3d Nantes Grand S/chase de Loire-Atlantique.

Reuilly. Unraced. Dam of 3 winners-

Socafone. 5 wins-1 at 2-at 1600m, 3d Milan Premio Blumone.

Danirifique. 3 wins to 1500m in Italy.

Talisman d'Or. 2 wins at 2 in Italy.

4th dam

VALREINE, by Rex Magna. Winner at 2400m, 2d Maisons-Laffitte Prix Crudite. Dam of 12 foals, all raced, 9 winners, inc:-

VALANJOU (c Pampabird) 9 wins-3 at 2-from 1600m to 2400m, 1,033,200fr., Deauville Prix Guillaume d'Ornano, Gr.2, Lyon La Coupe des Trois Ans, L, Criterium de Lyon, L, Grand Prix de Lyon, L. Sire.

ROUVIGNAC (c African Song) 9 wins-4 at 2-from 1200m to 1700m, Maisons-Laffitte Prix Altipan, L, Vichy Prix des Jouvenceaux et Jouvencelles, L, Criterium de Lyon, L, Maisons-Laffitte Prix Finasseur, 2d Santa Anita San Gabriel H., Gr.3, Toulouse Grand Criterium du Languedoc, L.

Jolival. 16 wins-1 at 2-from 1450m to 2400m, €164,833, 169,672fr., Saint-Cloud Prix de Brunoy, Prix des Oeillets, Prix de Verrieres, 2d Deauville Prix des Espoirs, 3d Maisons-Laffitte Prix de Medicis, Saint-Cloud Prix Flamant, Prix la Mirambule, Longchamp Prix de l'Universite.

Val de Sarthe. 2 wins at 2100m, Maisons-Laffitte Prix de Morangis, 2d Evry Prix de Port Royal, 3d Maisons-Laffitte Prix de Saint-Pair du Mont.

5th dam

VALMENE, by Val de Loir. Unraced. Half-sister to Good Fortune (dam of GOOD TO BEAT, NASIB). Dam of 9 named foals, 7 to race, 5 winners.

Race Record: Placed at 3 in 2018-19 in Aust.

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Race Record

Full Race Record for

FREE VERSE (AUS) 2015 Bay filly
by All Too Hard - Gopana, by Galileo

(in Australia)

Age	Runs	1st	2nd	3rd	Earnings
3	3	-	-	1	A$3,140
Totals:	3	-	-	1	A$3,140

12/Jul/2018	8th of 8	--trial--Newcastle JC Barrier Trial, 800m. Bubbles Ball was 1st and Western Folk 2nd and Macal 3rd.
22/Oct/2018	9th of 9	--trial--Wyong RC Barrier Trial, 845m. Bubbles Ball was 1st and Madam Ilithyia 2nd and Lagarde 3rd.
07/Nov/2018	8th of 9	--trial--Gosford RC Barrier Trial, 1000m. Thunder Pace was 1st and Defeat 2nd and Werewolf 3rd.
26/Mar/2019	7th of 7	--trial--Gosford RC Barrier Trial, 1000m. Ice Shelf was 1st and Got the Dosh 2nd and Pinup Miss 3rd.
05/Apr/2019	4th of 6	--trial--Newcastle JC Barrier Trial, 940m. Bellum was 1st and Scepter of Power 2nd and Frenzied 3rd.
26/Apr/2019	9th of 11 (6.3)	Port Macquarie RC Prime Local News Maiden H., A$21,560, 1206m, time 1:15.06. Track soft(7). Carried 56.00kg. Sizzling Suzanne was 1st and Airlie Avenue 2nd and Secret Lago 3rd. Trainer: K A Lees. Owner: Vinery Stud (Mgr: P C Orton), W Duck Pty Ltd (Mgr: A D Paradice), Kia Ora 2009 (Mgr: R W Rose), Werrett Bloodstock Pty Ltd (Mgr: N R J Werrett) & Encompass Bloodstock (Mgr: S B McC. Jockey: D Mc Lellan.	A$500
20/May/2019	3rd of 12 (1.5)	Port Macquarie RC Wauchope Cup Raceday Maiden P., A$22,000, 1500m, time 1:33.45. Track soft(6). Carried 55.50kg (allowance -1.50kg). Nobody's Perfect was 1st and Little Funny Bunny 2nd. Trainer: K A Lees. Owner: Vinery Stud (Mgr: P C Orton), W Duck Pty Ltd (Mgr: A D Paradice), Kia Ora 2009 (Mgr: R W Rose), Werrett Bloodstock Pty Ltd (Mgr: N R J Werrett) & Encompass Bloodstock (Mgr: S B McC. Jockey: I J FRENCH.	A$2,100
07/Jun/2019	6th of 12 (3.9)	Taree RC XXXX Gold Maiden H., A$21,560, 1400m, time 1:27.39. Track soft(5). Carried 57.50kg. Whaler Bill was 1st and Little Funny Bunny 2nd and Zandaya 3rd. Trainer: K A Lees. Owner: Vinery Stud (Mgr: P C Orton), W Duck Pty Ltd (Mgr: A D Paradice), Kia Ora 2009 (Mgr: R W Rose), Werrett Bloodstock Pty Ltd (Mgr: N R J Werrett) & Encompass Bloodstock (Mgr: S B McC. Jockey: C W Brown.	A$540

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